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Levee slumps by more than 6ft.;
repairs to take weeks
Weak soil discovered in rebuilt Buras section
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
By Mark Schleifstein
Staff writer
With hurricane season only three days away, the Army Corps of Engineers on Monday announced that a 400-foot section of earthen hurricane protection levee being rebuilt near Buras High School in Plaquemines Parish slumped by more than 6 feet overnight Saturday, and repairs could take three to six weeks.
Chris Rose
Question: Why isn't the Corps falling all over itself in a prostrate mea culpa about its criminal failure and its concomitant destruction of our city and needless and horribly gruesome death of our people? Why aren't there flowers on our doorsteps every day from these people?
Answer: There is no accountability in public life and government by the rich people for the rich people. None. Next question.
I ask you: Why aren't they as angry as the rest of us? Why aren't they pounding their fists and telling Chris Matthews Tuesday night that asking why New Orleans should be saved is the stupidest question he's ever asked and that's saying a lot.
Answer: Most countries have a city at the mouth of their largest rivers. In the old days it was called defense protection and now it's called commerce. No New Orleans no gas, wheat, chemicals or textiles.
Next question, Mr. Matthews, you sullen blowhard.
Man, I've got a headache.
You know, if you look at the flood protection the Dutch built for their below-sea level population (Why do they live there? Isn't that crazy?), it looks like a profoundly high-tech, super-engineered fortress of space age metals and design that could save a planet, not just some stupid little island full of tulips and cheese.
You look at what the Corps has going on around our town and you see what? Mounds of dirt and sheet metal.
Feel safe?
The Japanese have a flood system in place that's designed for a 1,000-year storm and leaders there worry that it's not enough.
Us? We're hoping the big storms hit Texas this year so we can make it to November.
That's sound policy: Burn lucky candles. Try a Novena. Lotto good that will do.
. . . . . . .
Columnist Chris Rose can be reached at chris.rose@timespicayune.com; or at (504) 352-2535 or (504) 826-3309. To read past columns, visit www.nola.com/rose.
repairs to take weeks
Weak soil discovered in rebuilt Buras section
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
By Mark Schleifstein
Staff writer
With hurricane season only three days away, the Army Corps of Engineers on Monday announced that a 400-foot section of earthen hurricane protection levee being rebuilt near Buras High School in Plaquemines Parish slumped by more than 6 feet overnight Saturday, and repairs could take three to six weeks.
Chris Rose
Question: Why isn't the Corps falling all over itself in a prostrate mea culpa about its criminal failure and its concomitant destruction of our city and needless and horribly gruesome death of our people? Why aren't there flowers on our doorsteps every day from these people?
Answer: There is no accountability in public life and government by the rich people for the rich people. None. Next question.
I ask you: Why aren't they as angry as the rest of us? Why aren't they pounding their fists and telling Chris Matthews Tuesday night that asking why New Orleans should be saved is the stupidest question he's ever asked and that's saying a lot.
Answer: Most countries have a city at the mouth of their largest rivers. In the old days it was called defense protection and now it's called commerce. No New Orleans no gas, wheat, chemicals or textiles.
Next question, Mr. Matthews, you sullen blowhard.
Man, I've got a headache.
You know, if you look at the flood protection the Dutch built for their below-sea level population (Why do they live there? Isn't that crazy?), it looks like a profoundly high-tech, super-engineered fortress of space age metals and design that could save a planet, not just some stupid little island full of tulips and cheese.
You look at what the Corps has going on around our town and you see what? Mounds of dirt and sheet metal.
Feel safe?
The Japanese have a flood system in place that's designed for a 1,000-year storm and leaders there worry that it's not enough.
Us? We're hoping the big storms hit Texas this year so we can make it to November.
That's sound policy: Burn lucky candles. Try a Novena. Lotto good that will do.
. . . . . . .
Columnist Chris Rose can be reached at chris.rose@timespicayune.com; or at (504) 352-2535 or (504) 826-3309. To read past columns, visit www.nola.com/rose.
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